Line Cook

Line Cook

As a Line Cook at Impact Kitchen, you set the culinary standard high and are passionate about ensuring guests enjoy their experience through incredible food. You create delectable and consistent dishes for dine-in and take-out guests, support back-of-house operations, and partner with your Guest Experience teammates to deliver a seamless Impact Kitchen experience.

Line Cooks are highly flexible individuals responsible for dishwashing, preparing, and working both hot and cold line kitchen stations while supporting Impact Kitchen's breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner menu. As proper food handling, food safety, and consistent recipe preparation are vital to this position, a primary responsibility of the Line Cook is to monitor sanitation, food quality, and freshness. This position is highly physical; therefore, individuals must possess strong stamina and attention to detail. Ideal candidates are efficient, adaptable, team-oriented, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

If health and wellness excites you, if providing wholesome food and empowering others to make healthy choices drives you, and if you are looking for opportunities to grow alongside a dynamic team, then working with Impact might be a great fit for you!

Compensation

Line Cooks earn $21/hour, receive paid time off for full-time team members, enjoy a substantial discount on Impact Kitchen products, and benefit from flexible scheduling to support a healthy, balanced lifestyle.

Team & Department

Line Cooks make an impact every day through our back-of-house operations and represent a key part of our total team. In this role, you'll collaborate with colleagues across multiple levels of the organization while being a central point of food production for our guests.

The Line Cook reports to the Culinary Experience Management Team, including the Assistant Culinary Experience Manager and Culinary Experience Manager.

Line Cooks serve as a foundation for growth within Impact Kitchen. Those who excel as Line Cooks have the opportunity to progress into Culinary Lead positions where they train and develop top talent, and eventually advance into management roles.

Core Responsibilities

• Preparation, production, and execution of menu items and food quality standards according to detailed recipes and instructions
• Operation and maintenance of dishwashing units and dish-cleaning areas
• Execution of custodial and cleaning duties as needed
• Receiving and storage of deliveries from the commissary kitchen and third-party suppliers
• Effective storage, management, and safe rotation (FIFO) of all products
• Cleaning, sanitation, and maintenance of kitchen equipment and food production areas
• Strict adherence to company, municipal, and provincial guidelines related to food safety and workplace standards

Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum of 1 year of kitchen experience with a general understanding of cooking and cleaning fundamentals
• Strong knowledge of food safety and public health practices
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Strong time management and organizational skills with the ability to multitask
• Effective communication and teamwork skills
• Ability to work on your feet for extended periods
• Availability to work days, evenings, and weekends as business demands
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs
• Valid Work Permit required
• Preferred but not required: Food Handlers Certification

This job posting is for an existing vacancy within Impact Kitchen, and we are looking to fill this position with a qualified candidate as soon as possible.

Inclusivity at Impact

Impact Kitchen feeds a diverse community and is made stronger by a diverse team. We welcome and encourage applications from our entire community equally. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the decision to hire is based solely on business needs, experience and future potential. Hiring is not determined or influenced by any classification of an individual as protected by the laws that govern the region for which the prospective individual would work within. This is true for all practices and policies within the employee journey/lifecycle.

Impact Kitchen supports alternative ways to interview and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Should you require a reasonable accommodation, please indicate in your application. Both Impact Kitchen management and the applicant share responsibility to communicate and reasonably accommodate.